No one escapes the reality of losing a loved one and oneself, One day, experience the passage, the great passage, that of life éternelle.Ce day, many questions jostle and it is legitimate to find solace and support in our faith and to those who represent the Church and faith our Catholic parish.
Formerly, the priest, the parish priest was present to life and all its stages and knew all the families. Formerly, bury a loved one was a powerful and moving moment for all the family, neighborhood, county, township. Formerly, there was almost a common priest, he was accepted with his charisma and his limitations, he was respected! It was a personality as Mr. Mayor and Mr. schoolmaster, the schoolmaster who taught morals when Monsieur le Cure was catechism.
Times have changed, but we want to keep what we have always known, our stable and ceremonies dens of yesteryear! The problem is that the most beautiful girl in the world can not give what she has! How to respond to such demand, ( last year more than 300 Christian burials on our parish). Unfortunately priests died too! Our bishop came to pay their last respects to Father Jean Vinsandon former priest died while Bellegarde en Marche Holy Week 2010.
The priests have not always done funerals; early Church communities organizing to ensure that service is not a sacrament but a time of prayer in the example on this model foi.Prenant for over 20 years of baptized have agreed to answer a call and a real mission entrusted by the Church. They are volunteers and receive no compensation.
Whether special thanks for this service which is a way of being Christian and answer the call of their baptism. They agreed to form and meet with families in mourning the irreplaceable service in prayer and faith.
Priests may not be as present as in the past but continue with the deacons and the various teams to ensure they can both a local presence. (Preparations and celebrations of mourning that affect you).
On the Notre Dame de Haute-Marche, more than twenty persons who perform under pressure with professionalism and humility this service. Thank you all .... to them for this mission is a challenge for you and your understanding for not having in the next hour the priest.
Pierre Morin ; Parish priest
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